Hospitals have been making money off of ER like mad, polecat.

It’s the other services that are sucking up the dollars.

AnninCA on May 21, 2009 at 2:31 PM

WHITTIER — The emergency room at Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital lost $3.7 million in the 2002 fiscal year, according to a recently released report from the California Medical Association.

According to the study, the hospital’s emergency room made the list of California’s top 40 money-losing emergency rooms, coming in at No. 31.

“Here and everywhere else, the emergency room is not a money- making department,’ said Todd Salnas, Presbyterian Intercommunity’s outpatient care center administrator.

The hospital’s emergency room, officially called the R.C. Baker Foundational Regional Emergency.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-11024706.html.

WTF you talking about ?

It’s the other services that are sucking up the dollars.

the changes required will take decades to fix

My point precisely. The budget won’t wait that long.

Then I’d make sure the musical chairs government we have cannot double dip in various pension plans. They get the smallest of all plans for which they qualify, until the State has a balanced budget on less income than 5% of the state’s GDP.

Hey, I can dream, can’t I?

{^_-}

To those who say we should put the Reagan era behind us – I have a better idea. Let’s put the Bush era behind us.

To those who say we should redefine our principles, I have a better idea: we don’t need to redefine our principles; we need to return to them.

To those of the Republican establishment, who misled our party for years, who dismantled so much of what Ronald Reagan accomplished and now tell us “the other side has something” and we have nothing. To them I can’t improve upon Cromwell’s words: “You have sat here too long for any good you have been doing; it is not fit that you should sit here any longer. You shall now give way to better men. Now depart and let us have done with you, I say, in the name of God, GO!”

WAKE UP!!!!!!

The things that would work are fewer prisoners and/or a successful challenge to the prison workers union.

The first would probably be best achieved by eliminating prison time for victimless crimes. Violent criminals? Look at what breeds them (poverty exacerbated by the welfare state, single parenthood, failing schools, illegal immigration) and you’ll quickly see which aspects the state government is complicit in. It would be a generational affair but doable.

Now would be the best time for the governor to make a stand against state unions. They’re not going to recall him with a year and a half left on his term. If I were him I’d fight a losing battle, make the Democrats show their true colors as obstructionists and in the pockets of the unions, and go out on a good note.

California having the same fetish with prisons that Texas has with the death penalty)

I wouldn’t say fetish. One half of voters support government policies that encourage criminal behavior and the other half want tough penalties for criminals. Add to that a legal system that allows criminals to sue for rights to cable TV, weights, basketball courts and specialized diets and we end up with a large prison population of criminals that get better treatment than many school kids.

It’s a depressing situation, especially since the changes required will take decades to fix, and a state legislature that has absolutely no clue and is desperately trying to preserve the status quo.